Paumchariu Part 1

SR No.: 002523
Original Sutra Author: Swayambhudev
Author: H C Bhayani
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 458
Language: Sanskrit, English
Classification: Book_Devnagari & Literature
File Size: 11 MB

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moras and hence only the following eight
forms are permitted:
UUUUUU. GUUU, UU
-.-UUUU, UU. UUCU, σU —
This means that all the Padas of the stanzas in question are also divisible as 4+4. Now on the strength of the convention of counting the end syllable long, we can regard those Pādas which end in u, as containing 9 moras divisible as 4+5. And the Dvipadi Jambhetția (SC. VII 11, Raj, 235, Ch. VII 67) has the scheme 4+5. Consequently, if we come across the commencing stanzas of MP. 6 1. 6 3 and 6 7 isolated from their context and without the name of the metre prefixed to them, it would not be possible for us to tell whether the metre is Malaavilasiya or Jambheṭṭiā.
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But SC. can help us in quite a different way to solve this problem. Svayambhu has taken several stanzas from his PC. to illustrate some of the metres in SC. In the case of these stanzas we possess an unusual means: their metre is named and their structure is defined by their author himself. There can be nothing more definite than this. And the considerably corrupt character of the text of these illustrations in SC. need not hinder our investigation because we have an access to their correct text from PC. Moreover, the Ghattas of any one Sandhi being normally in one and the same metre, we can use additional data also, to check up the observations of SC. The table below indicates the common stanzas between SC. and PC. along with the names and schemes of their metres.
1.
2. V
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
SC. V
VI
VI
VI
10.
5
9
VIII 4 VIII 6
8. VIII 17
9. VIII 21
VIII 25
11. VIII 27
INTRODUCTION
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71
74 Raanavali Maaṇāvaāra Dhuvaa
Metre
4th Satpada-jāti
6th Satpada-avajāti
Vammahatilao Candujjuo
5th Chadḍaniā
7th Chadḍaniā
1st Ghatta
2nd Ghattä
Scheme 7+7+13
9+9+15
8+14
9+16
9+17
5 X 4
9
7+7+-13(?) 10+8+-13 9--14
Occurence
in PC.
CHOMEL C
3 3
14 7
65 1
77
81
77 13 13
1-2
24 2
33 3
3
1
31 1 41 1 5 1
11 9
12
Of these Nos. 1, 2, 8 and 9 are Satpadis, Nos. 6, 7 and 11 are Samaçatuspadis and Nos. 3, 4, 5 and 10 are Antarasama Catuşpadis. Excepting No. 6 all the stanzas are Ghattas appearing either at the beginning of a Sandhi or at the end of a Kadavaka. The text of SC. VIII 17 is corrupt and the meaning is obscure. Therefore No. 8 is to be left out from consideration. Now SC. V 5, V 9 and VIII 20 tell us that the Satpadis employed in PC. 3 3 11, 14 7 9 and 31 1 have the respective schemes 7+7+13, 9+9+15 and 10+8+13. If we examine the text of these stanzas in PC. we find that actually their schemes are 6+6+12, 8+8+14 and 10+-8--13 respectively. This means that in the first two cases the end syllable in all the Pādas is to be regarded as long, but in the last case it is to have its actual value. The basis of this discrimination is not clear. The normal expectation is either to assign uniformly its actual value to the end syllable or alternatively to regard it uniformly long. And in the structure of the stanzas themselves there is nothing to account for this discrimination, so that we could take their measures to be either 66-12, 8+8+14 and 10+8+13 or 7+7+13, 9+9+15 and 11+9+14. If we look up the other Ghattas of these Sandhis we find that in the case of the Ghatta of 14 2, the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th
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